Overview
- A small propeller plane came down nose-first at the intersection of Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive after departing Reid-Hillview County Airport on Saturday, according to city emergency officials.
- Two adults and a child were aboard and were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and later released as appropriate.
- FAA records identify the aircraft as a 1968 Cessna 177A registered to Flying Twenty Inc., a nonprofit flight club that operates from Reid-Hillview.
- Fire and police crews contained a minor fuel spill, closed the nearby Alum Rock Avenue offramp from Highway 680 briefly, and removed wreckage about three hours after the crash.
- Authorities say drugs and alcohol do not appear to be factors and the cause remains under investigation, a development that adds to local concerns about flights from the small airport near residential neighborhoods.